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A Tax Reformer for All Seasons: Charles O'neill Galvin SMU Law Review Volume 59 Issue 2 Article 4 2006 A Tax Reformer for All Seasons: Charles O'Neill Galvin Henry J. Lischer Jr. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.smu.edu/smulr Recommended Citation Henry J. Lischer, A Tax Reformer for All Seasons: Charles O'Neill Galvin, 59 SMU L. REV. 455 (2006) https://scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol59/iss2/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at SMU Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in SMU Law Review by an authorized administrator of SMU Scholar. For more information, please visit http://digitalrepository.smu.edu. A TAX REFORMER FOR ALL SEASONS: CHARLES O'NEILL GALVIN Henry J. Lischer, Jr.* I. INTRODUCTION ........................................ 456 II. A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY ................................. 456 III. TAX REFORM DEBATES AND TAX REFORM EFFO RTS ................................................ 460 A. DESTINED FOR PROMINENCE .......................... 460 1. 1942-43 Texas Law Review Article ................. 460 2. 1959-60 Tax Revision Compendium and the 1960 Harvard Law Review Article ...................... 463 3. 1967 Harvard Law Review Colloquy ............... 464 4. Subjects on Which Galvin Has Written ............. 464 B. INVOLVEMENT IN INSTITUTIONAL TAX REFORM E FFORTS . .............................................. 468 1. Tax History Prior to 1962 ......................... 468 2. ABA Section of Taxation Involvement ............. 470 3. Participationof the American Bar Foundation and the 1969 Publication of Studies in Substantive Tax R eform ............................................ 472 4. Participationof the Fund for Public Policy Research and the Publication in 1973 of Reforming the Federal Tax Structure .......................... 474 5. Blueprints for Basic Tax Reform ................... 477 6. Treasury I and II .................................. 479 7. American Law Institute Federal Estate and Gift Tax P roject ............................................ 481 C. OPPOSITION DIRECTED AT REFORM EFFORTS ......... 482 D. ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFORTS WITH WHICH GALVIN W AS ASSOCIATED ..................................... 483 IV. CONCLUSION ........................................... 483 "No one could be more dedicated to the investigation of substantive tax reform than Dean Galvin."1 2 "He was so damn far ahead of his time!" * Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law. 1. STUDIES IN SUBSTANTIVE TAX REFORM Xii (Arthur B. Willis ed., 1969) [hereinaf- ter STUDIES]. 2. Telephone interview with David Glickman, Partner, Baker & McKenzie, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, in Dallas, Tex. (Oct. 31, 2005). SMU LAW REVIEW [Vol. 59 I. INTRODUCTION HIS article is written as a tribute to a man for whom I have the greatest respect, Charles O'Neill Galvin. He has been a colleague, a co-teacher, a friend, and an inspiration through most of my pro- fessional life. This article describes Charley as an ever-present and pow- erful participant and leader in the tax policy debates and tax reform efforts that span five decades. Acknowledging his many contributions and accomplishments is particularly appropriate as tax reform is center stage at the time of this writing because the President's Advisory Panel 3 on Federal Tax Reform just issued its report. Charley's efforts were many and his contributions considerable. He was on the leading edge of some of the tax policy debates, and not every- one appreciated his calling into question for review some of the provi- sions of the federal tax system.4 Fortunately, Charley persevered through the sometimes adverse commentary, and his efforts led to his appoint- ment to leadership positions with respect to path-breaking technical stud- ies regarding policy-based reform of the U.S. tax system: Studies in Substantive Tax Reform5 in 1969 and Reforming the Federal Tax Structure6 in 1973. The legacy of those two publications clearly is evident in the 1977 major governmental tax reform study Blueprints for Basic Tax Re- form, 7 and the legacy continued into the 1984 Treasury Department Re- port to the President, Tax Reform for Fairness, Simplicity, and Economic Growth.8 Anyone who has followed or studied tax policy matters over the last four decades will recognize that the foregoing list of studies is impressive indeed. Moreover, the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a much-her- alded legislative effort, manifests the base broadening and rate reductions that Charley long advocated. II. A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY Charles 0. Galvin was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Sep- tember 29, 1919, but to the ever-lasting good fortune of Southern Meth- odist University ("SMU"), his family moved to Dallas in 1921, initially living in Oak Cliff, in the southern part of Dallas. In 1929, the Galvin family moved to the north Dallas suburb of University Park, so named because it was the home of SMU (founded in 1911). The Galvins lived on 3. See PRESIDENT'S ADVISORY PANEL ON FED. TAX REFORM, SIMPLE, FAIR, AND PRO-GROWTH, PROPOSALS TO FIX AMERICA'S TAX SYSTEM (Nov. 2005), available at http:// www.taxreformpanel.gov/ [hereinafter REPORT]. 4. See discussion infra Part III.C. 5. Studies supra note 1; see discussion infra Part 1II.B.3. 6. COMM. TO REVISE THE TAX STRUCTURE, REFORMING THE FEDERAL TAX STRUC- TURE (1973) [hereinafter REFORMING]; see discussion infra Part III.B.4. 7. DEP'T OF TREASURY, BLUEPRINTS FOR BASIC TAX REFORM (1977) [hereinafter BLUEPRINTS]; see discussion infra Part III.B.5. 8. DEP'T OF TREASURY, TAX REFORM FOR FAIRNESS, SIMPLICITY, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (1984); see discussion infra Part III.B.6 [hereinafter TAX REFORM]. 2006] Tax Reformer for All Seasons McFarlin Boulevard several blocks from the campus of SMU. The year 1929 was an auspicious year for SMU, in my opinion, as I claim it as the year that marked the beginning of SMU's relationship with Charley (as a down-the-street neighborhood child), a relationship that has benefited SMU in many, many ways over a period of more than seven decades. Perhaps his proximity to SMU as a youth had some effect on Charley because he spent virtually all of his professional life associated with universities. Charley graduated from Highland Park High School in 1936, and he chose to attend SMU for his undergraduate education. He received his Bachelor of Science in Commerce (with highest honors) from SMU in 1940. Portending, perhaps, that he would have a future in tax policy de- bates, particularly debates based upon computer-generated data, at SMU he studied accounting and statistics. Immediately after obtaining his Bachelor's degree, he set off to Chicago and Northwestern University, where he pursued a Master of Business Administration ("M.B.A.") de- gree, intending to commence law school immediately after completing the M.B.A. Charley obtained his C.P.A. certificate in 1941 with one of the five highest scores on the Texas exam. He received his Northwestern M.B.A. (with distinction) in 1941 and returned to Dallas to start law school at SMU in the fall of 1941. United States participation in World War II upset the progression of his legal studies, however, because Char- ley joined the United States Navy in 1942. He served four years of active duty, including two years of service in the Southwest Pacific, after which he returned stateside to the Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S. Naval Base where he met Margaret Edna Gillespie (Peggy), an active duty Lieutenant, Jun- ior Grade, in the United States Naval Reserve. Charley and Peggy were married at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on June 29, 1946, and their lives have been as one ever since. They have five children and nine grandchildren. Peggy has been a real partner and supporter of Charley's many professional activities.9 In 1946, Charley was honorably discharged from the Navy as a Lieu- tenant Commander, and he returned to his legal studies. He began his legal education at SMU, and received his Juris Doctor degree at North- western University in 1947. Northwestern (which previously had known Charley as an M.B.A. student in 1940-41) welcomed him as an instructor in the undergraduate accounting department while he was a law student. At the same time, Peggy was obtaining her Master's degree in English from Northwestern. Charley took "the" tax course at Northwestern taught by Willard Pedrick, a name that will be recognized by many as prominent in both taxation and legal education. Charley was interested 9. A comprehensive biography of Charley would require an extensive discussion of Peggy's many contributions. I have the greatest of respect for Peggy's many contributions, but this article is not that comprehensive biography, and I acknowledge that I do not give Peggy her full due. SMU LAW REVIEW [Vol. 59 in taxation, and he wrote a law review comment under Pedrick. 10 After completing law school at Northwestern, he practiced law in Dallas with the firm of Leachman, Matthews, and Gardere from 1947-52. The match with the Leachman firm was propitious because Wright Matthews had served as Assistant Commissioner of the IRS, and Charley devoted his practice substantially to taxation. Charley began teaching at SMU, first as an adjunct member of the faculty. Charley taught a variety of law school courses at night, and for part of that time, he also taught a 7:00 a.m. course at the SMU Business School. In 1952, Charley commenced his long and distinguished career as a full-time member of the professoriate by joining the SMU law faculty. As was true of many entry-level law professors, Charley taught a widely diverse curriculum of courses including equity, community property, real property security, wills and trusts, and federal taxation. After joining the full-time law faculty at SMU, Charley continued his own education by pursuing the Doctor of Judicial Science ("S.J.D.") de- gree from Harvard University. During the 1956-57 academic year, Char- ley was in residence at the Harvard Law School as an Ezra Ripley Thayer Fellow.11 During that academic year we find Charley in two roles: one role as a student in several courses with notable faculty members, and another role as a teacher.
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